Just remember, football is 80 percent mental and 40 percent physical.
Okay, so that math doesn't add up, but Little Giants rushed into theaters on Oct. 10, 1993, meaning the family comedy about a rag-tag pee-wee football team is 29 years old. (And yes, that equation proves you are that old, sorry!)
Directed by Duwayne Dunham and starring two of the '90s biggest actors, Ed O'Neill and Rick Moranis, the movie only scored $19.3 million at the box office. But, thanks to its young cast—including Devon Sawa and Shawna Waldron as dreamy quarterback Junior and "berzerko Barbie doll" Icebox, the only girl on the team—and hilarious one-liners, Little Giants has lived on as a cult classic.
And the making of the film was just as memorable for its cast, with Sawa telling E! News that Little Giants felt "like summer camp."
"I don't know if you notice in the background, but there was McDonald's and Slush Puppies on the side of the field and they were all open to us and we were allowed to go nuts on those," he recalled. "So we were constantly eating McDonald's and it was a lot of fun. It was three months of football and goofing around."
In addition to a lot of free food, the movie also provided Sawa with the opportunity to work with one of his comedy idols.
"Married with Children was at its absolute peak, so it was Al Bundy, it wasn't Ed O'Neill," Sawa reflected. "We were kids, we were working with Al Bundy and it was the greatest even though he wanted to be as far away from that as possible."
So, get ready to pull off the "annexation of Puerto Rico" to find out what the stars of Little Giants are up to now: